I'm allergic to peaches. I can handle them with no problems, but eating them is a recipe for disaster. I bought some peaches recently for some houseguests, who didn't eat them and forgot to take them home with them. Now I have a lot of peaches. My partner's headed out of town, and I'm having a dinner party. Is it weird to whip up a nice peach salsa for my guests? If I'm not going to eat it?

It's fine. I hate shrimp but many of my friends/family love it so I cook it for them at gatherings. They key is that it's an addition, not something that's different as your own meal. I may only eat the chicken and not the shrimp, but there's enough chicken for the guests too so they can have both.

I make food I don't eat for guests. I am a vegetarian. I don't have an ethical problem with non-factory farm meat. I just can't make myself eat it. I either follow a well-reviewed recipe or make a meat-eater test it.

A vegan relative has taken over the cooking and serving of Thanksgiving for relatives who live near her because she has a huge table that can seat twenty and a big house with plenty of room for the kids to play.

Other relatives provide the turkey and roast it in her kitchen. She makes a tofuky for herself and her family. There are plenty of vegan sides and everybody seems perfectly happy with the arrangement.

I was eating at a small cafe. They have the best coconut cream pie. My mom is an excellent baker so I am usually disappointed in restaurant pies. This place is the exception. Today, I just found out the baker hates coconut. I thought of this thread.